He’s Spending His Last Years On Earth Visiting Refugee Camps For A Powerful Reason
No matter where you stand on political issues, we can all agree that there is currently a refugee crisis.
Crisis is what makes people refugees in the first place. You’d be hard pressed to find someone who wants to leave their home to live in a camp in another country and wait years to be assigned a new home, almost entirely at random. Only people in the direst of situations are willing to do such a thing, and figuring out how to help those displaced people is important to so many.
One World War II veteran who fought Hitler is trying to document the refugee crisis, and in doing so, he hopes to create a better world.
Harry Leslie Smith is 94 years old, and he knows that means he is near the end of his life. He says he’s spending his “last moments on Earth” traveling to major refugee sites to help solve the problem.
“I want to turn my research, my impressions, my outrage and passion into a book that can help shake people from their complacency,” he said. While in the field, Smith will also be podcasting, writing, and tweeting.
“I am one of the last few remaining voices left from a generation of men and women who built a better society for our children and grandchildren out of the horrors of the Second World War as well as the hunger of the Great Depression,” Smith writes. “Today, the western world stands at it’s most dangerous juncture since the 1930s.”
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He’ll be visiting sites in Europe, the United States, and maybe even Australia over the next 18 months while he researches. That work is inspiring many others, and he has more than 123,000 followers on Twitter to show for it.
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